Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3058. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007. Sold For $775. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PONTOS. Mithradates VI Eupator. Circa 120-63 BC. AV Stater (8.14 g, 11h). First Mithradatic War issue. Tomis mint. Struck in the name of Lysimachos of Thrace, circa 88-86 BC. Diademed head of deified Alexander right / Athena Nikephoros seated left;
FD monogram to inner left,
TO below throne, ornamented trident in exergue. Callataÿ p. 142 (D7/R1); AMNG I 2485; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG Tübingen 203 (all from the same dies). VF, some die rust. Rare issue, only one die known to Callataÿ.
From the John A. Seeger Collection.